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DCN’s media industry must reads: week of July 25, 2024
This week's digital media industry must-read news stories curated by DCN, the only trade association that exclusively serves media companies
July 25, 2024 | By Michelle Manafy, Editorial Director – DCN@michellemanafy![](https://digitalcontentnext.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/perspective_resized.jpg)
Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:
- Digiday | After years of uncertainty, Google says it won’t be ‘deprecating third-party cookies’ in Chrome (5 min read)
- The New York Times | ‘Barbie’ Was Supposed to Change Hollywood for Women. Why Didn’t It? (6 min read)
- Financial Times | The problem of ‘model collapse’: how a lack of human data limits AI progress (3 min read)
- Taylor Lorenz | The Pop Craveification of Breaking News (5 min read)
- Poynter | Though most Americans get local political news, few are satisfied with its quality (3 min read)
- Intelligencer | AI Chatbots Have a Donald Trump Problem (8 min read)
- Inclusive Journalism Cymru | Recruiting for Inclusion – A guide for media organizations (16 min read)
- PWC | Perspectives from the Global Entertainment & Media Outlook 2024–2028 (14 min read)